The Promised Messiah (as) said, ‘This life is nothing at all.’
He continued:
The Zul-Qarnain mentioned in the Holy Quran is somebody different and Alexander the Great is some other person. Some people think the two are the same. It [Zul-Qarnain] means one who partakes of two centuries.1
1 Badr, vol. 8, no. 7–9, p. 3, dated 24, 31 December 1908